John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

Unlike physics or chemistry ... "zero-sum" games where the interests of two players were strictly opposed. John Nash treated the more general and realistic case of a mixture of common interests ...

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank based in Santa Monica, California -- the RAND Corporation. Although Nash ...

At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown schizophrenia, a disease sometimes called the "cancer of the mind." Aolicai Nash, his wife, was 26 at the time. "I wanted to help him," she ...